Enrique & Becky

Training key Hispanic leaders around the world

As we approach the end of this school term, we praise the Lord for the way he has blessed us through you and your faithful support, financially and in prayers. Please, accept our deep gratitude for empowering us to serve the Lord as we train key Christian leaders around the world. May the Lord reward you for your investment in the lives of these leaders who otherwise would not have the opportunity to acquire new skills for ministry. enrique.fernandez@efca.org becky.fernandez@efca.org

In Step with the Holy Spirit

We want to always have in mind that we cannot train Christian leaders unless we are walking with the Lord. We also recognize that we are not able to fulfill Gods call in our lives in our own power. That is why, twice a year we hold a spiritual retreat. We set aside three days, and invite a mature leader to guide us through a time of solitude, prayer, corporate worship, and individual meditation. Last November, we affirmed our commitment to the warning of the biblical text; Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders build in vain. We praise the Lord for visiting us during our retreat.
ProMETA has been blessed by the Lord with significant alliances. One of them is the one we have with Vida Abundante, a church in Costa Rica. Last November Senior Pastor Ricardo Salazar (between Quique and Keith), and Pastor of Discipleship Jason Cordero, prayed for ProMETA, and promoted our programs in their four services, with an attendance of over 4000 people. As a result, many potential students visited our promotional table, and several of them enrolled in our Ministerial Courses. We praise the Lord for the opportunity to have a local church partner with us providing spiritual support as well as wisdom when we need to make decisions.

PLEASE, PRAY WITH US...

1. For a blessed Christmas with our family in Guatemala. 2. For wisdom for Quique. He will be in Panama, Dec. 19-22, to participate with a team that will plan a special training conference for theological schools in Latin America next year. 3. Quique will preach the Christmas sermon at our home church in Guatemala. Pray that he will motivate people to commit their life to the Lord. 4. January 2-5, Quique will be in Puebla Mexico, with two ProMETA members, to provide training on how to design courses for distance education. Please pray for wisdom for him.
Quique and other members of our team explaining how our programs work.

We praise the Lord for a growing commitment, from theological schools in Latin America, to partner together to serve him and his church. Throughout the region, every year there are several opportunities to receive and provide training, with the purpose of improving the training and equipping of key Christians leaders. In this picture, Quique is with a group of professors and administrators of seminaries, who attended a three-day meeting, in Guatemala, sponsored by AETAL. This is an accrediting organization which also provides training and opportunities for sharing to schools in Latin America. As a member of the Consulting Team, Quique continues working in support of Los Olivos Christian Mission. For several years now, Los Olivos has been implementing a comprehensive plan focuses on four ministry areas: spiritual, education, medical, and community development. In this picture, Oscar Chiquito, the missionary who coordinates these efforts, is explaining to a vision team how the stoves that they are providing for poor families around Sumpango, Guatemala, are changing not only the way these families cook, but also preventing them from getting diseases due to the smoke they were inhaling before when they cooked on the floor over a rustic fire . In ProMETA, we have the commitment to keep an eye and foot on the realities faced by the churches pastored by our students. For that reason, we make ourselves available to them when they need a speaker for special occasions. In this picture, Quique is addressing a group of 80 people who attended a marriage seminar. These people are members of Prince of Peace church, which is having a significant impact in the community, in the city of Cartago. They expect that these activities will attract many to the church and to the gospel.

2012 BUDGET
As we approach the end of 2011, we face an important challenge. The Lord is giving us significant opportunities, but we will need to raise $800.00 a month of extra support to take advantage of them. Would you, please, consider helping us to continue training leaders and serving Bible schools in Latin America? Please hold the control key and click here www.efca.org/give-now to increase or give us new support. Becky is very glad that 19 people, from 6 countries, finished their first Ministerial Course. She is now getting ready for the new set of courses that will be offered starting in February. Every month a new group of courses will be offered, and we expect that the number of students will grow exponentially. Recently, ProMETA started the Ministerial Workshops, which are offered to local churches in San Jose, Costa Rica. Quique had the opportunity to teach a workshop on Expository Preaching to a group of 40 people, from five churches of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. In this picture Quique is with a group on young leaders of these churches.